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Digested week: When should we talk to children about the very worst things?

This week’s events make me wonder how long I can keep stalling. Plus, Keir Starmer’s Jason Bourne moment

The Guardian - UK

Authors join call for Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuel

More than 150 writers and industry professionals are asking the firm, which is a leading sponsor of UK literary festivals, to drop their investments

The Guardian - UK

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele; A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand; Lamb by Matt Hill; My Brother’s Keeper by Tim Powers

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A Memoir of my Former Self review: Hilary Mantel was peerless, but this new collection is one for purists

If you would like to read what Hilary Mantel made of Robocop, then I have the book for you. But if you’re looking for a memoir, as you might expect given the title, then you are out of luck. This is a collection of essays, lectures and journalism (Mantel spent…

Evening Standard

Tamil board book featuring a princess called Kundhavai helps children deal with emotions

Meet princess Kundhavai who learns to express her emotions better with help from her aunt in Emmozhi Publications' picture book Thottachiningi Ilavarasi

The Hindu

John Niven: ‘My comfort read? Alan Clark’s diaries’

The Scottish author on laughing out loud at Catch-22, being inspired by Martin Amis and the joy of Graeme Johnston’s Kerby

The Guardian - UK

The Pole and Other Stories by JM Coetzee review – a late love affair

Coetzee’s purist approach to storytelling strikes a chord in this novella and five tales

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Books on cricket | 11 for the pitch happy

From essays and tour books to those that convey “the real flavour of cricket”, this selection of books on cricket is for the die-hard fan

The Hindu

Review of Sudipta Biswas’s Tulsidas Balaram — The Boy, The Hero, The Tormented Footballer: Golden boot

Sudipta Biswas's book, ‘Tulsidas Balaram: The Boy, The Hero, The Tormented Footballer’, is a tribute to a distinguished forward, who was an integral part of India's golden era of football. It captures the world of football through interviews, research and anecdotes, and highlights the heartbreaking episode of Balaram not being…

The Hindu

Unpublished works, manuscript by legendary Argentine writer Cortázar sell for $36,000 at auction

A buyer from Argentina has paid $36,000 for a manuscript of works, including seven unpublished stories, by legendary Argentine writer Julio Cortázar at an auction in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo

The Independent UK

Captain Sir Tom Moore wanted family to keep money from his books, daughter says

The daughter of Captain Sir Tom Moore has admitted her family kept profits from three books he had written.

The Independent UK

Jada Pinkett Smith says Will Smith ‘became the drug’ during their relationship

Actress recently revealed she and Will have been separated for seven years

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Italian writer Roberto Saviano fined €1,000 for libelling Giorgia Meloni

Supporters of author, who castigated PM over migration policies, say verdict will have ‘chilling effect’ on media

The Guardian - UK

What is Britney Spears’ net worth? Everything we know about her conservatorship, real estate, and divorces

Pop icon’s new memoir will be ‘a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope’

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What is Sam Asghari’s net worth? Everything we know about actor’s career and divorce from Britney Spears

Hi ex-wife’s memoir is set for release on 24 October

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‘Atrocious behaviour’: visitors accused of sabotaging Batley library £1 book sale

Volunteer says some people decided ‘all stock was available to take’ despite his protestations at West Yorkshire event

The Independent UK

Sandra Hüller's burdens of proof, in 'Anatomy of a Fall' and 'Zone of Interest'

Since Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it won the Palme d’Or, Sandra Hüller has been dogged by a question: Did she do it

The Guardian - AU

Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton review – a misguided bootstraps story drowning in sentimentality

The bestselling author has noble intentions but his third novel romanticises homelessness, perpetuating dangerous myths while charting nowhere new

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Schools to teach rap and grunge in music classes ‘in bid to diversify curriculum’

Literature resources will also be updated to feature contemporary black British writers

The Independent UK

School curriculum resources to include more diverse writers and music genres

There have been calls to decolonise and diversify the curriculum in schools for some time.

The Guardian - UK

Animal music, broken bridges and amazing shoe designs – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq review – coming of age in the High Arctic

An Inuit teenager faces nature’s power and the repercussions of colonialism in a compelling debut from a singer-songwriter

The Guardian - US

Trump demands apology from Forbes for being cut from wealthiest list again

Ex-president claims magazine, citing $600m loss, worked with prosecutor who sued him and assigned writers to ‘hit him hard’

The Independent UK

Captain Tom’s daughter says family kept £800,000 from his books ‘because it’s what he wanted’

Hannah Ingram-Moore said she has ‘regret’ over building spa and pool complex under charity’s name

The Guardian - UK

Cornwall’s Bodmin Moor: a land of megaliths, ghosts, solitude – and literature

Miles from cities and motorways, the Cornish backdrop to Louis de Bernières’s latest novel is a place for spooky hikes and a real escape from the 21st century

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